(n.) A period of immeasurable duration; also, an emanation of the Deity. See Eon.
(n.) An immeasurable or infinite space of time; eternity; a long space of time; an age.
(n.) One of the embodiments of the divine attributes of the Eternal Being.
Example Sentences:
(1) Being without one for aeons – a day – made me realise how much I rely on it.
(2) The £40m dowry will be used to refurbish stores as Aeon outlets with the cash helping to preserve employment of Tesco's nearly 1,000 workforce.
(3) After the acres of print and aeons of time spent discussing the extremist takeover of the Labour party, a more pressing matter has been left more or less ignored.
(4) It seems an aeon since Ellen DeGeneres generated so much controversy for coming out as a lesbian on her TV show in 1997.
(5) In real-life terms, 16 years is aeons – certainly enough to break off a 12-year engagement, meet the father of my children, give birth to those children; lose my wonderful stepdad to a stroke, offer to be a surrogate mum; see my sister marry, divorce and fall in love again; experience my brother and his wife having a beautiful son; and buy one of those tremendous trampolines for the garden.
(6) Their bible is the International Chronostratigraphic Chart , the beautiful document that archives Earth history from the present back to the “informal” aeon of the Hadean, between 4bn and 4.6bn years ago (“informal” because vanishingly little is known about it).
(7) The smoke hung in the air for a small aeon before wind and the encroaching darkness removed the stain from the sky.
(8) Their specialism is the division of deep time into aeons, eras, periods, epochs and stages, and the establishment of temporal limits for those divisions and their subdivisions.
(9) 3.44pm BST 73rd over: England 161-7 (Ali 52, Jordan 1) Two slips, a silly point and a short leg, as Herath comes into Jordan, who doesn't see him as early as Prior or Ali - each block seems hurried - and then a jaffa bounces and spinds past the outside edge, aeons and hectares too good for him.
(10) It is not now, so clearly the climate has changed since aeons ago.
(11) "We are very pleased to announce this deal with Aeon and are confident this will deliver the best outcome for our staff and for our shareholders," said Clarke.
(12) This is an abridged version of an essay that appears in the digital-only magazine Aeon
(13) Aeon is expected to buy the rest of the shares in Tesco Japan in the autumn.
(14) Still, on it plods, aeons passing with every will-sapping shot of Alfie crying in a doorway, his cuckolded jowls flapping like windsocks.
(15) Trying to call a cab from one of the two main services is equally frustrating: you listen to Elton John for 20 minutes while holding an operator, then wait a further aeon or two for a recorded message to the effect that there no cabs available in your sector at the moment, and could you please call back later.
(16) It was as well behaved an opening to a game as these rivals have managed for aeons.
(17) Yet the tax system is full of such weirdnesses, and has been ever since married couples rightly stopped being taxed jointly, aeons ago.
(18) It's a swanky address but, as she points out, she bought it aeons ago, when even such lowly forms of life as political activists and freelance journalists could still afford a piece of Manhattan real estate.
(19) Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian Joseph Cooke This is an idea that’s been going on for aeons of time; this middle class thing like, ‘We’re different to you and you’re a lower class person so you stay on that side of void and eat at that cafe down there, and we’ll sit on this side and eat at this restaurant.” It’s like a mould.
(20) Despite the UK’s enthusiasm for Amazon , and similarly permissive test flights elsewhere in Europe, Canada and Australia, “no single country stands out as being aeons ahead of everyone else,” says Holland Michel.
Eon
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Aeon
Example Sentences:
(1) In response to the Advisory Committee on training in Nursing recommendations EONS in association with Marie Curie Memorial Foundation organized a workshop, where representatives of the 12 member states of the EEC, actively involved in cancer nursing education, were invited to prepare a core curriculum in cancer nursing education.
(2) Casino Royale, whose rights had been individually sold off by Fleming in 1955, eventually passed to Eon in 1999 as a result of an agreement between Eon’s backers MGM and rival Hollywood studio Sony – thereby clearing the way for the 2006 version.
(3) Eon only regained the rights to use Spectre and Blofeld in 007 movies last year after resolving a long-running legal dispute stretching back to a suggestion, in 1959, by the Irish writer Kevin McClory that Ian Fleming, the spy’s creator, should pen a Bond film set in the Bahamas .
(4) Accumulation of random mutations and large macromolecular sequence change in all organisms since the Proterozoic Eon has been importantly supplemented by acquisition of inherited genomes ('symbiogenesis').
(5) Karyotypic alterations (polyploidization and karyotypic fissioning) have been added to these other mechanisms of species origin in plants and animals during the Phanerozoic Eon.
(6) Authentic Scottish Labour, no longer a “branch office” of the party in Westminster, needs to keep top talent at Holyrood, after eons of brain-drain southwards.
(7) Ofgem is understood to believe the big six – Centrica's British Gas, EDF Energy, RWE Npower, SSE, Eon and Scottish Power – hold up to £400m in millions of accounts closed after customers switched suppliers or moved home.
(8) Vin reminds me that we have not had a change in score since the third inning, which was eons ago.
(9) In his first major interview since taking office, Will Day, the incoming chair of the Sustainable Development Commission (SDC), told the Guardian that construction of new coal stations, such as the planned Eon Kingsnorth facility in Kent, would provide a "lightning rod" for international protest.
(10) However, it’s clear that Eon does its best to use British directors, reinforcing the national brand identity that is part of the Bond selling point.
(11) However, after a six-year break, Eon installed Martin Campbell in the chair: another experienced director, but one who was able to orchestrate one of the most elaborate stunts in Bond history.
(12) Frankly, producers Eon would have been better off giving the lead to Madonna’s innuendo-dispensing fencing instructor, but perhaps the idea deserves a revamp more than a decade on.
(13) The Sky deal comprises the 22 official Bond films made by Eon Productions as well as two non-Eon movies – Casino Royale and Never Say Never Again.
(14) Don Lieper , director of new business at Eon, said: "We take this very seriously – it is a legal requirement.
(15) But he appeared to rule himself out in April, telling an audience at London’s British Film Institute that he had given up on getting the call from 007 production company Eon.
(16) Local distributor eOne was quick to trumpet this achievement as bigger than the UK opening of Slumdog Millionaire (£1.83m from 324 cinemas), and with a higher screen average than the debut of The King's Speech (£8,919).
(17) For example, the functional competence of most, if not all, of the sugar-metabolizing enzymes was clearly established before the division of eukaryotes from prokaryotes eons ago, each critical active-site amino acid sequence being conserved ever since by bacteria as well as by mammals.
(18) Photograph: eOne If he is indeed the nemesis of Luke Skywalker & Co, he has bodybuilder-size shoes to fill ( David Prowse , who wore the original suit, stood at 6ft 6in).
(19) This paper outlines the content of that core curriculum and presents EONS' subsequent plans to design educational courses in all aspects of cancer care for European nurses.
(20) The sites have been nominated by the energy giants EDF, Eon and RWE, and by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA), which owns some nuclear sites.